About This Artwork
Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916
Mephiston.d.
Charcoal with touches of black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on discolored yellowish-tan wove paper, ruled in graphite
378 x 356 mm
No signature visible
David Adler Collection, 1950.1431
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Exhibition of 19 charcoals owned by Jean Goriany [or Henri Petiet] made for Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony," August, 1941.
Palm Beach, Fla., Society of the Four Arts, "Odilon Redon," 1955, cat. 43.
Publication History
Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon, Fantasy and Colour, translated by Michael Bullock (New York, 1965 ), p. 226, no 594.
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 77, no. 4D5.
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint et Dessiné 2 (Paris, 1994), p. 254, no. 1224 (ill.).
Ownership History
Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris [according to Wildenstein 1992 ]. Henri Petiet (1894-1980), Paris, by March 1940 [according to Wildenstein 1992]; sold to the Art Institute, 1950.